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...honored guests that day was bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon and the longstanding head of Egypt's al-Jihad, a radical Islamic group founded in 1974 that is blamed for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the failed 1995 attempt on President Hosni Mubarak. The leading ideologue of al-Qaeda, with an extreme dedication to violence, al-Zawahiri, 50, is "the brain behind bin Laden," says Montasser el-Zayat, an Egyptian lawyer who has represented extremist groups and spent time in prison with al-Zawahiri. "When Osama went to Afghanistan...
...photo of a kimono-clad university student 14 years his junior. He proposed the day after their first date, and in 1978 Koizumi and Kayoko Miyamoto were wed before 2,500 guests. The marriage didn't last, and in 1982, after having two sons, they divorced. His right-hand man says the whole matter was pure politics. Miyamoto wasn't cutting it as a political wife, says longtime aide Isao Iijima. He told Koizumi, "Choose between your family and your political career." Divorce Japan-style means a permanent severing of ties. Koizumi kept the sons, and Miyamoto has not seen...
...same precinct, Crusty the Clown - apparently hired by a tabloid - tried to get close to Hague, presumably to give the newspaper a photograph with a "two clowns" caption. But Crusty was determinedly blocked off by former Olympic runner Sebastian Coe, now Hague's right-hand...
What I like most about Office XP is that it gives you a chance of actually finding all these extras. When you fire up Word, Excel or PowerPoint, a window on the right-hand side of the screen gives you a list of things you may want to do, like open an existing document or use a premade template. There are similar windows for adding clip art, formatting a document and doing searches. In previous versions, these items were hidden under menus. Documents are still peppered with all sorts of new icons and old squiggly lines meant to help...
Fineberg described his role as that of a top deputy and right-hand...